Love Knows No Borders

A faithful call to action, intersection, and solidarity.

We proclaim the truth of the sacred stories and identities being violently attacked and disappeared by our own government. We seek justice with and for every neighbor and every community oppressed by the fear and greed of an unholy movement fueled by white supremacy and Christian nationalism. Alone, we are being overwhelmed by an unceasing flood of hatred. Together, we will resist the tide of tyranny, united in the love of Christ and by the power of the Holy Spirit. . 

We will speak out. We will not be erased. We affirm that Love Knows NO Borders.    

NMUCC Justice Resources

🧡 Immigration Justice Homepage
🧡 Refugee and Migration Ministries
🧡 Sensitive Locations FAQ for Houses of Worship
🧡 Love is Louder
🧡 Global HOPE: Migration, Immigration, Refugee and Asylee (MIRA) Unified Grant Application

🧡 Love that is sacrificial and unconditional.

🧡 Love that stands firm in resistance to hate, oppression and empire.

🧡 Love that celebrates those who resist unjust systems.

🧡 Love that centers the voices of those on the margins: beloved children of God who are being injured and even killed by budget cuts, politicized layoffs, and deliberately cruel government policies.

▷ Since Trump came into office, ICE has deported more than 605,000 people. ICE is increasingly targeting people who have no criminal records and the majority of those detained and deported have no criminal convictions. Detention facilities across the US are over capacity by more than 13,500 people.  

▷Immigration enforcement officers continue to harass and illegally detain Native Americans, and the Trump Administration is pursuing multiple drilling and mining projects on their sacred land.  

▷ The indefinite refugee ban remains in place. Over 120,000 refugees whose cases were conditionally approved by U.S. officials after years of screening and vetting remain stranded in countries abroad. 

▷ At the end of January 2026, ICE reported more than 70,000 people were detained in 225 ICE facilities throughout the U.S. More people have been detained by ICE now than ever before in U.S. history. 

▷ The administration has pursued a range of policies aimed at discouraging legal immigration to the U.S. They have revoked Temporary Protected Status from previously protected populations, moved to denaturalize foreign-born U.S. citizens, and shut down all immigration from 75 countries. More than 1.6 million legal non-citizen residents have lost their right to stay in the U.S. The President also seeks to end birthright citizenship. 

▷ The escalation of militarized and violent force against immigrants from Border Patrol, Immigration Customs and Enforcement, and the National Guard is the harshest, most inhumane action against immigrants we’ve seen in modern history. 2 U.S. citizens have been murdered by ICE in Minneapolis. Government power is being marshaled to target specific peoples, justify mass removals, and normalize cruelty under the guise of “order.”  

▷ The Big Brutal Bill passed by Congress in the summer of 2025 takes health care coverage away from over 15 million people, impacting the most vulnerable and people living with disabilities. It is also set to shutter hundreds of hospitals in the U.S. and kick more than 2 million people off food stamps, all while increasing total immigration enforcement funding by 170 billion.     

▷ President Trump sent more than 2,200 National Guard soldiers to DC, clearing over 50 homeless encampments, forcing the unhoused, without any assistance, to find somewhere else to sleep. This model, according to the President, will be replicated in every sanctuary city. 

▷ Since Sensitive Locations protections were rescinded in January 2025, immigration enforcement can now conduct operations in churches and other houses of worship, hospitals, and schools. Schools are seeing a sharp rise in chronic absenteeism and churches are also witnessing lower attendance. 

▷ Dire, unsafe conditions in detention centers have led to medical neglect, malnutrition, violent attacks against migrants, and even deaths. For the tens of thousands in detention, fluorescent lights shine around the clock, rotten, spoiled food is served for meals, there is dirty drinking water, necessary medical care is lacking, and there are multiple reports of physical and sexual violence against detainees.   

▷ The Trump Administration is also attacking the Trans community, by threatening federal funding for schools that include any mention of transgender in their sex education, kicking trans people out of the military and pulling pensions from trans veterans, and cancelling all transgender-related grants.  

▷ As an immigrant welcoming church, the UCC has denounced the federal government’s actions that strip the due process and constitutional rights from immigrants. 

▷ Rooted in Biblical witness, we have rejected any actions that deny the human dignity of immigrants, migrants, and refugees, and named our responsibility to care for the sojourner as our neighbor. 

▷ We have longstanding resolutions that affirm the human dignity and intrinsic rights of indigenous people, even as we confess the genocide of the Native Peoples of this continent and the enduring denial of treaties and systematic material impoverishment of indigenous communities and Reservations. 

▷ In 2023 we publicly affirmed our belief that trans and genderqueer people are made in God’s image and deserving of the right to not just survive but thrive. 

▷ We have repeatedly stood firm in the foundational teachings of Jesus to renounce powers and policies that increase hunger and make the sick sicker.

These attacks on our communities signal not just a policy crisis, but a democracy crisis. In the UCC we affirm that democracy, our voice, is sacred. Contempt for due process and the constitution by the very government that should protect and uphold these rights, erodes our civil liberties and harms our communities, our institutions, and even our faith. We must not become passively complicit in the sins of our nation by remaining silent in the face of evil. With Jesus as our Rock in this weary land, we will call on a Love greater than the powers of this world to restore compassion and dignity across our nation.